Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads
by pizza234 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @05:38PM
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> But I'm the loser of the story here, as those guys are now working for even bigger companies with bigger salaries
Another way to look at this is that a lower-paid SWE is paying for their mental health and morale. In my books, that's a winner :)
With the assumption that those engineers whose high/er salary in big/ger companies is not achived through mastery (Netflix is certainly not going to hire the Jon Schlinkerts), they're likely going to work with, say, "moral peers", which is typically undesirable for mentally healthy people.
Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads
by itronitron on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @01:00PM
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They must be quite the 10X programmers to be able to contribute to open source like that while still holding a full-time job. (/s)
Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads
by midrus on Saturday November 20, 2021 @06:52AM
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Well... if the actual Open Source work you do is in your day job except that instead of committing to the internal codebase you commit in your own packages all day and then update the dependency in the project, I don't think you need to be 10x.
I used to work for a company where it was ok (managers won't say anything, even if explicitly pointed at the situation) to remove company company code, create your own NPM package (on your own private NPM account) and add it as a dependency of the company codebase(s).
This and some other similar behaviours were the reason I left that company. But I'm the loser of the story here, as those guys are now working for even bigger companies with bigger salaries than me.